• Arabic:
• Chinese: 进步 (jìnbù)
• Czech: pokrok
• Dutch: vooruitgang
• Esperanto: progreso
• Finnish: edistys
• French: progrès
• German: Fortschritt (1,3)
• Greek: πρόοδος (próodos) (1,3)
• Hungarian: haladás, fejlődés
• Ido: progreso
• Italian: progresso
• Japanese: 進歩 (しんぽ, shimpo)
• Korean: 전진 (jeonjin)
• Novial: progrese
• Portuguese: progresso
• Russian: прогресс
• Spanish: progreso
• Swedish: framsteg (improvement)

• Czech: pokrok
• Swedish: framsteg, framgång

Pronunciation 2

• prəgrĕs', /prəˈɡrɛs/, /pr@"grEs/

Verb

1. to move, go, or proceed forward; to advance

   They progress through the museum.

2. to improve; to become better or more complete

   Societies progress unevenly.

Translations

• Esperanto: progresi
• French: progresser
• Ido: progresar
• Novial: progresa
• Spanish: progresar

Progress indicates generally forward moving (L. Progressus, a going forward, advance) and may refer to:

Science

• Progress (philosophy), a main object of philosophy of history
• Evolutionary progress, the idea that there is a largest-scale trend in evolution of organisms and that the trend is toward improvement
• Scientific progress, the idea that science increases its problem solving ability through the application of some scientific method
• Social progress, process in which societies or individuals become better
• Progress trap, process in which science and technology, in pursuing innovation, create more problems than they can solve

Business

• Progress Energy Trust, Canadian oil and gas exploration and extraction company
• Progress Publishers, Moscow-based Soviet publisher
• Progress Software Corporation, the creator of Progress 4GL

Computer science

• Progress in artificial intelligence
• Progress 4GL, programming language developed by Progress Software Corporation (see OpenEdge Advanced Business Language)
• Progress bar, component in a graphical user interface used to convey the progress of a task

Geography

• Progress, Amur Oblast, a town in Russia
• Progress, Republic of Adygea, a khutor (village) in the Republic of Adygea, Russia
• Progress, name of several other rural localities in Russia
• Progress, Indiana, United States
• Progress, Oregon, United States
• Progress, Pennsylvania, United States
• Progress Village, Florida, United States

Music

• Progress (album), solo album recorded by original King Crimson drummer Michael Giles
• Progress (EP), EP by Pedro the Lion
• Progress (Rx Bandits album), 2001 album by the Rx Bandits
• Pro-gress

Transportation

• Progress D-27, propfan engine that the U.S.S.R company developed in the 1980s for commercial and military transport aircraft
• Progress spacecraft, Russian expendable unmanned freighter spacecraft

Other fields

• "Progress" (DS9 episode), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode
• Progress (organisation), United Kingdom Labour Party political group
• Progress Theatre, a self-managed theatre in Berkshire, England
• Royal progress, formal tour of the state by its monarch

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